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The purpose of this research was to do a case study of how value stream mapping (VSM) contributes to operational excellence within an ICT company. To illustrate this, a case study was conducted at Swisscom, a large Swiss telecommunications company. The motivation of the study was to contribute to research within the industry of information and communication technologies (ICT) and secondly, to high
Smoked ham is commonly eaten in Sweden. However, smoked ham consists of a lot of salt (NaCl) which is an important component in the brine. Since a high salt consumption increases the risk of cardiovascular diseases, it is of great interest to decrease salt and other sodium-binding compounds in various food products, especially in smoked ham. Nevertheless, this is a challenge because the salt and o
Purpose: The purpose of the study was to understand the key managerial challenges associated with Big Data. The research aimed to look at the possible obstacles that managers need to overcome while implementing Big Data. The main research question is : What are the main managerial challenges associated with Big Data and what steps are needed to overcome those? Methodology: Based on the concepts of
En internetbaserad enkätstudie med 823 deltagare undersökte huruvida det gick att finna variationer i könsidentitet som överskred en binär syn på könsidentitet, om det fanns upplevelser av könsinkongruens i en icke-klinisk population samt hur två mått på könsidentitet förhöll sig till varandra. Detta undersöktes i en icke-klinisk population. Könsidentitet definierades som ”vilket kön en känner sigAn internet-based survey with 823 participants explored the possibility of finding variations in gender identity that lay outside the gender binary, whether any experiences of gender incongruence were present, as well as how two measures of gender identity were related to one another. This was explored in a non-clinical sample. Gender identity was defined as "the gender one feels like".
Purpose: To examine the wealth-generating effects of LBO exits from the PEs perspective depending on different exit strategies, and to identify how private sponsors’ features like historical performance, size, experience etc. might influence the success of the exit as well as the exit route choice. Methodology: A short-term event study to detect a cumulative abnormal return around LBO exit announc
Sammanfattning Problembakgrund: Forskning visar att mellanchefer har en utsatt roll med krav från många håll. Vidare har det visat sig att mellanchefer i grundskolan ofta slutar sitt arbete för att det är påfrestande på flera sätt. I grundskolan skapas förutsättningar för elever till att bli goda medborgare, vilket kräver att betydelsen av hållbart ledarskap uppmärksammas och förverkligas för mell
In response to the outbreak Global Financial Crisis and European Debt Crisis, major central banks took very accommodative monetary policy stances. By slashing interest rates to the zero-lower bound and introducing unconventional monetary policy in the form of quantitative easing they hoped to boost aggregate demand and inflation. This paper investigates the workings of QE, money creation, potentia
The present study aims to contribute to the research-practice gap debate by addressing the understudied managers’ perspective. Based on a theoretical framework, it incorporates the managers’ stance on four dimensions previously debated by scholars, namely perceived relevance of the research-practice gap, stakeholder relationships, reasons for the gap and research utilization. The small-scale explo
The biological age (BA) equation is a prediction model that utilizes an algorithm to combine various biological markers of ageing. This model has been used to assess the ageing process in a more precise way and may predict possible diseases better as compared with the chronological age (CA). Here study focus on predicting BA as deviation from healthy state of aging and treats CA as known and unkow
Exponering för naturliga element och miljöer har utifrån Attention Restoration Theory (Kaplan & Kaplan, 1989) visat sig ha positiva effekter på upplevd återhämtning av förmågan till riktad uppmärksamhet. Tidigare forskning har däremot i liten utsträckning undersökt om och i så fall hur denna effekt påverkas när en miljö innehåller information från olika typer av miljöer. Ett experiment med upp
Marriage is closely tied to economic status, and delayed marriage is often a sign of poor economic conditions for younger people. After a century of decline, marriage rates in Ireland appeared to turn a corner in the 1930s. This study examines this apparent period of transition using census data and finds that in reality marriage rates for men engaged in agriculture continued to decline at least u
Många människor har idag en privat digital fotosamling, i molnet eller på en dator. Sådana samlingar är ofta bara kronologiskt sorterade, även om mer intelligenta lösningar som t.ex. ansiktsigenkänning allt oftare används för att skapa smarta strukturer. Ett annat sätt att göra en fotosamling mer dynamisk och intressant skulle kunna vara genom att föreslå semantiskt relaterade foton till det foto Many people today possess a private digital photo collection. Such collections are often just chronologically sorted. One way to make photo browsing more interesting would be to suggest semantically related photos to a currently viewed photo, and if, in addition, such a relationship could be justified in words, that would create extra value for the user. To find a solution to this problem, the ap
Industrial gas turbines are widely used in different applications. These can be divided into two main categories; power generation (PG) and mechanical drive (MD). To be able to predict the performance of the system, Siemens has during the years developed simulation models for both steady state and transient operation. These models are mainly designed for PG, so there is a need for new MD models. A
Steg 1: Sätt mål. Steg 2: Glöm dem inte! Sverige och världen står inför en stor utmaning. Klimatet håller på att förändras utöver vad som är naturligt och sannolikt står världens befolkning inför en drastisk förändring som kommer att påverka samhället. Det krävs en anpassning till de här förändringarna på internationell, nationell, regional och lokal nivå och den här studien fokuserar på en av måThis study has been conducted in cooperation with the County Administrative Board of Halland and the results will be used as input for the Board in the upcoming revision of their currently working energy- and climate strategy. The study shows the importance of goal formulation in goal-oriented documents, in this case energy- and climate strategies belonging to the different County Administrative B
För att skapa ett obrutet informationsflöde har studien konstaterat två bidragande faktorer. ICE-projektering är ett steg att kvalitetssäkra information mellan aktörerna samt korta svarstiderna. Det viktigaste med ICE-projektering är även att informationen blir tillgänglig för alla. Den andra faktorn är en välfungerade projektportal. Detta åstadkoms genom en tydlig mappstruktur och en tjänsteman s
In past years, the demand for an indirect extraction of respiration and the interest in a joint study of respiratory and cardiac systems represented the driving forces for the development of Electrocardiogram Derived Respiration (EDR) algorithms. The main advantage of them consists in deriving a sufficiently reliable surrogate respiratory signal by only exploiting the normal electrocardiogram (ECG
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate how consumers relate to coffee, and what the consumption means to them. Existing research is demonstrating two contradictory perspectives of coffee as a mundane product. Due to the inconclusive research results this paper seeks to generate a more advanced understanding of how consumers relate to mundane coffee consumption as well as to understan
Cognitive decline and subsequent dementia are known to be prevalent in PD (Parkinson’s disease) however, recently olfactory deficits have been found to be present in the majority of PD patients. Findings indicate that they precede the motor symptoms and could therefore be used as early clinical markers for PD. The purpose of this study was to investigate the predictive value of olfaction and CSF (
Sammanfattning E-handeln ökar i Sverige och med detta följer även de returer som sker inom e-handeln. Särskilt inom klädbranschen är returer höga och kan ligga på nivåer upp emot 50 %. Förutom påverkan av lönsamhet, kundnöjdhet och lojalitet så kan returer leda till miljöpåverkan vilket resulterar i ett intresse att minska returerna. Forskning om hur företagen och konsumenter ser på returernas och
Denna uppsats syftar till att undersöka vilken betydelse individer tillskriver olika orter, samt vilken inverkan deras sociala kontaktnät har för känslan av tillhörighet till både den ursprungliga och nuvarande orten. I studien inkluderas åtta informanter vilka flyttat från sin hemort till en ny bostadsort. Genom kvalitativa intervjuer tolkar dessa individer i retroperspektiv de olika orterna, der
